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light. Most members of the public agree that APEGA professionals provide benefits to the province, results suggest. Some of the cited benefits are: • building safer and better infrastructure
per cent of P.Eng.s said the same. For Professional Geoscientists, 62 per cent of Albertans surveyed said they have the same or greater credibility as the other professionals, but only 36 per cent of P.Geo.s said the same. Impressions of prestige are lower than credibility for both designations. Roughly two-thirds of Albertans regard Professional Engineers with the same or greater level of prestige as other professionals, while this drops to half for Professional Geoscientists. Half of Albertans agree that Professional Engineers are recognized leaders in the community, the survey suggests, compared with 38 per cent for Professional Geoscientists — which is up from an averaged percentage for the professions of 30.5 per cent in 2011. About half of Albertans know that the professions are regulated in a way similar to doctors and accountants, through provincial legislation.
• protecting the environment • helping the economy grow
Agreement in this area is higher when Professional Engineers are looked at separately, at 76 per cent, than when Professional Geoscientists are, at 68 per cent, Disagreement is extremely low for both, at two and three per cent respectively. Interestingly, the public’s perception of the professions is significantly higher than Members’ impressions of the public’s perception. While 71 per cent of surveyed members of the public said Professional Engineers have the same or greater credibility as other professionals do, such as doctors or accountants, only 64
MEMBER SURVEY How would you rate APEGA's performance on each of the following roles or activites?
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